The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins
The 'first industrialists' were the pioneers and leaders of the British Industrial Revolution, the men who founded factories and other large establishments, which were typical of the new economic system. They had a number of precursors since the sixteenth century, but, on the whole, they were a new breed, which emerged in the late eighteenth century. They were markedly different from the leaders of traditional industry. This book is focused on the social and occupational origins of those founders of modem British industry: what kind of families did they come from? What was their occupation before they set up as industrialists? In discussing these and other issues, this study (based on Professor Crouzet's 1983 Ellen McArthur Lectures) makes an important contribution to the problem of social mobility during the Industrial Revolution.
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The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins
The 'first industrialists' were the pioneers and leaders of the British Industrial Revolution, the men who founded factories and other large establishments, which were typical of the new economic system. They had a number of precursors since the sixteenth century, but, on the whole, they were a new breed, which emerged in the late eighteenth century. They were markedly different from the leaders of traditional industry. This book is focused on the social and occupational origins of those founders of modem British industry: what kind of families did they come from? What was their occupation before they set up as industrialists? In discussing these and other issues, this study (based on Professor Crouzet's 1983 Ellen McArthur Lectures) makes an important contribution to the problem of social mobility during the Industrial Revolution.
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The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins

The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins

by François Crouzet
The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins

The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins

by François Crouzet

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The 'first industrialists' were the pioneers and leaders of the British Industrial Revolution, the men who founded factories and other large establishments, which were typical of the new economic system. They had a number of precursors since the sixteenth century, but, on the whole, they were a new breed, which emerged in the late eighteenth century. They were markedly different from the leaders of traditional industry. This book is focused on the social and occupational origins of those founders of modem British industry: what kind of families did they come from? What was their occupation before they set up as industrialists? In discussing these and other issues, this study (based on Professor Crouzet's 1983 Ellen McArthur Lectures) makes an important contribution to the problem of social mobility during the Industrial Revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521088718
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2008
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The industrialist: a new man; 2. The precursors; 3. The myth of the self-made man; 4. Building up a sample; 5. Noblemen and gentlemen in industry; 6. From rags to riches; 7. The middle class in industry; 8. Insiders and outsiders; 9. The self-made man again?; Tables; Notes; Index.
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